NCT06295848Completed
The Effects of Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme in Hypertensive Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
The Effects of 6-week Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme on Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure and Disease Activity in Hypertensive Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients : A Randomised Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim of this study is to investigate the beneficial impacts of the 6-week standardized CR program applied to hypertensive RA patients whose disease activity is under control with regular pharmacological treatment. Subjects will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: 1.) standard of care (SOC) treatment or 2.) SOC plus a 6 week CR program.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (actual)
- First submitted
- 1 Sept 2023
- Start date
- 15 Nov 2022
- Primary completion date
- 15 Apr 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Kayseri City Hospital
- Diseases
- Rheumatoid arthritis, High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT06295848
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 40
- From 15 Nov 2022 to the primary completion date, 15 Apr 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Severe mental disorder
- Neurological disease or deformity in the lower extremity that would prevent the patient from using the treadmill.
- High-risk unstable angina and all acute cardiac diseases (acute myocardial infarction, acute endocarditis, myocarditis or pericarditis)
- Uncontrolled HT, Diabetes, cardiac arrhythmia and heart failure
- Acute pulmonary embolism or pulmonary infarction and severe pulmonary hypertension
Other
- Refusing to participate in the program
- Symptomatic severe aortic stenosis
Who the study is looking for
- Patients diagnosed with RA according to ACR/EULAR 2010 criteria
- Taking regular treatment for at least 1 month according to ACR/EULAR guidelines
- Patients diagnosed with HT according to the 2018 European Society of Hypertension and European Society of Cardiology (ESH/ESC) guideline
Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| health sciences university Kayseri medicine faculty Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kayseri | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Cardiac Rehabilitation for Cardiovascular Risk Modification in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Hypertension: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Int J Rheum Dis · 2026 · PMID 42473428
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